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Conclusion

Core2Duo can run Assassin’s Creed 4 and Call of Duty Ghosts pretty good (above 40 FPS) even on stock factoy CPU frequency.

It struggles with Far Cry 3 @ 30 fps mark but a nice overclock gives it a boost up to @45 in intensive benchmark run.

Need for Speed Rivals is unplayable on stock speed because whenever the performance drops below 30 fps the gameplay also slows down. Either you have constant 30 fps or you get slowdowns. Overclock sees a great boost as the game actually becomes playable.

What it makes it an old piece of tech is performance in Battlefield 4. Even extreme overclock can’t help. The game NEEDS 4 cores.

This was the first part of testing dual core performance. I am about to proper-test even more games like Battlefield 3, GTA IV and so on.